An Ecology of Asperities : Wrapped~Tensioned and Bandaged Bodies

The surface is where the body records its relations.

Maternal Body : Clay Impression and Fragmented Form. 2010
Auguries into the maternal body. Un-fired clay and silica sand.

Constructed in-situ at the Yard, Winchester. A life-size record and memory of a human presence as a site for mutual introspection.
Inspired in part from the novel  " The  Children of Men "  by P D James.

Indexical human body trace onto fired clay, white gesso, wax, calico, cotton, rusted wire.

The ceramic body does not merely occupy space. It develops organs through which space can be sensed, gathered and made otherwise.
The hole becomes a threshold through which the practice itself changes scale.
The minor is not insignificant. Its force is cumulative.
The future is not necessarily beyond the material encounter; it may already be gathering within it.
Rather than positioning clay within an ecology from the outside, Moreton approaches clay as an ecology through which the maker becomes permeable.

Ecology of Asperities.

https://independent.academia.edu/RussellMoreton

The paper proposes an ecology of asperities: a condition in which minor material disturbances—incisions, traces, tensions, fractures, holes, borings and surfaces—become spatial events through which bodies encounter one another. These gestures are considered not as isolated formal decisions but as affective events within a wider correspondence of material, body, atmosphere, time and space.

Particular attention is given to the hole as a developing distinction within the practice. In earlier work, a singular, human-scaled and indexical hole emerged through an encounter with P. D. James’s The Children of Men, where the fertile centre of the human body was reimagined as absence. The hole became an excavation within the ceramic body: an absent centre that nevertheless opened a threshold towards possible futures. In later works, this singular opening becomes smaller, multiplied and dispersed through the ceramic body. Borings and perforations produce a distributed porosity through which air, light, atmosphere and other material relations may gather.

The movement from the singular hole to multiple minor openings suggests a shift from absence as existential condition towards permeability as ecological practice. The minor gesture becomes cumulative; the threshold becomes a field.